When Tony Romo burst onto the scene as a color commentator for CBS after his NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys ended, he was a sensation.
He was enthusiastic, and it seemed like he could predict every play that was coming next.
These days, Romo is a little less beloved.
In fact, Drew Lerner of the sports media website Awful Announcing has suggested that Romo's gig on the CBS No. 1 team is in jeopardy.
CBS has the Super Bowl in two years.
Jim Nantz and Romo may not be their best quality team. Many prefer Ian Eagle and J.J. Watt.
Lerner pointed to three things in Saturday's game.
The first was when Romo compared the Jacksonville Jaguars to Saturday's Carolina Panthers game, even though the Jags entered Sunday as a favorite and the Panthers were double-digit underdogs.
"Shortly after, he and Nantz failed to fully acknowledge a possible injury to Josh Allen after a third-down rush that sent the star quarterback to the blue medical tent," Lerner wrote. "Instead, the booth spent their time digging further into a kicking storyline featuring 19-year veteran Matt Prater and cannon-for-leg kicker Cam Little of the Jaguars. Viewers were left in the dark on Allen until after a commercial break, when sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson reported Allen had undergone and cleared the concussion protocol."
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Romo also thought something was going on with the officials on a second-half Allen rushing TD for the Bills even when nothing appeared to be amiss.
"These are all small, seemingly innocuous, individual moments," Lerner wrote. "It’s easy to nitpick any broadcaster in this way. But Romo’s blunders have become consistent. Even he admitted that some criticism was warranted. CBS took the extreme measure of staging an “intervention” of sorts with Romo before the 2022-23 season, after outside noise reached a fever pitch."
It'll be something to watch the next two weekends in the final two broadcasts of the year, which will culminate in the AFC Championship Game this season.
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